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On Soidh African Grasshoppers. 



of the latter obtusely prominent in the middle. Lateral 

 lobes of the pronotum with two small, laterally conipressetl, 

 pale tiibercK^s ou the fore margin, a small blackish, obtusely 

 conical tubercle in the middle of the fore part, a pale- 

 coloured round callous spot at the fore lower angle and 

 irregular jialc callosities on the lower ])art of the metazona. 

 Elytra with cells dark olive-green and veins green, except 

 in the marginal area, which is brownish throughout ; an 

 indistinct row of brownish spots along the axillar veins. 

 Wings earniiue-rcd, with the veins in the fore part bluish. 



Fiff. 4. 



Phymella capensis, geu. et sp. n. 



Abdomen marmorated with blackish, olive-green, andoehra- 

 ceous spots and dots, with a lateral row of large pale spots, 

 liind ftmora with a rather wide olive-green transverse fascia 

 on the upper side, and numerous indefinite spots and dots 

 of the same colour. Hind tibire muddy green. 



$ (paratype). General coloration brownish ochraceous, 

 with tubercles on the head and pronotum more distinctly 

 blackened, and with markings on the hind femora and 

 abdomen also blackish, instead of dark olive-green, as in the 

 male. The pronotum also bears several (juite small black 



